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Alliance Data management to meet with JMP Securities

Meeting to be held in Plano, TX on November 30 hosted by JMP Securities.

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$233.21

7.6 (3.37%)

06/07/17

WELS

06/07/17NO CHANGEWELS

Alliance Data transaction positive, says Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo believes that Alliance Data's recent acquisition of $1B of receivables from Signet Jewelers gives the company "an attractive source of new business." It thinks that the deal could boost the company's EPS by 84c by 2020. while boosting investor sentiment towards the name. Wells keeps an Outperform rating on the stock.

07/13/17

ARGS

07/13/17INITIATIONARGSBuy

Alliance Data initiated with a Buy at Argus

Argus analysts Stephen Biggar and Mike Jaffe started coverage of Allinace Data Systems with a $309 price target and a Buy rating. The analysts say that the company's "private-label and co-branded credit card business is largely insulated from the shift to e-commerce," and they expect it to "post solid operating results in the coming years."

07/21/17

LEHM

07/21/17DOWNGRADETarget $265LEHMEqual Weight

Alliance Data downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at Barclays

Barclays analyst Darrin Peller downgraded Alliance Data Systems to Equal Weight and lowered his price target for the shares to $265 from $285. Secular headwinds to the overall retail environment and credit "normalization" will weigh on the valuation in the near term, Peller tells investors in post-earnings research note. The analyst sees shares as being range-bound pending greater visibility into these factors.

07/21/17

JMPS

07/21/17NO CHANGEJMPS

Alliance Data weakness 'excessive,' says JMP Securities

After Alliance Data lowered its fiscal 2017 EPS guidance, partly due to delayed recoveries and uncollectible finance charges, JMP Securities analyst David Scharf says that demand for the company's card and non-credit businesses.remains strong. He thinks that the company's earnings outlook remains strong, and he calls the decline in the company's stock "excessive." He keeps a $285 price target and an Outperform rating on the shares.

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